Judith Vander Weg

Biography

Judith Vander Weg is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Michigan with degrees in cello performance. She has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, and Spain in collaborative recitals and as orchestral soloist. Principal cellist of the Flint Symphony Orchestra since 2002, she previously served as principal cellist with Mid-Texas Symphony, associate principal with the Toledo Symphony and as a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony. With friends in San Antonio she co-founded HEMISPHERE, a flute, oboe, cello and piano quartet in 1994. Since 1998 Judith has been a performing artist at the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck (MI). Always fortunate to combine performing, teaching, and coaching chamber music Judith is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Music Department at Wayne State University and has served on the faculties of the University of Texas in San Antonio, the University of Toledo, Calvin College and Grand Valley State University. She is a clinician for youth symphonies and school orchestras, a frequent adjudicator, and maintains a busy home studio in Grosse Pointe.